Seminars & Events

APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) is a lunchtime workshop open to public, including IDE staffs, visiting research fellows, IDEAS students, outside researchers and graduate students. This workshop provides a platform for presentation of any work in progress where we can discuss in either English or Japanese.

Please have a contact with APL organizers by email in advance (contact information is shown in the bottom of this page), if you would like to present your work or attend a seminar.

November, 10, 2011, (Thursday) 12:30-13:30

Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization C23 Meeting Room　

Young women’s economic lives in rural Ethiopia: methodology and brief results review

Abstract: The presentation will be about methodology (Mixed methods approach) and a brief result review of my research regarding young women’s economic lives in rural Ethiopia, conducted in July-August 2011. As it is still at a preliminary stage, I would really welcome your comments and suggestions at the seminar.

As background, Ethiopia has been experienced rural transformation economically and politically since the regime change from the socialist regime to the EPRDF (Ethiopia People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front) which has been adopting economic liberalization policy in 1991. Given the acute land shortage, de-agrarianisation is inevitable in rural people, resulting in livelihood diversification within households. While literature has reviewed the process of livelihood diversification in rural Africa, it has tended to ignore the economic role of young women within households. There are several possible reasons in Ethiopian context; 1) absence of ‘young women’ due to early marriage, and 2) limited cash income opportunities for young women and their hidden contribution through household chores, 3) categorization as wives or mothers rather than a group of ‘young women’.

My research aims to investigate the current economic activities of young women under rural transformation, and to understand how young women have experienced the transformation in Ethiopia. The initial research result indicates that changes of life course and intra-household relationship of young women due to interactions between economic and educational opportunities for young women and expectation of their parents in young women’s economic contribution to their households.

Yuka KODAMA（Area Study Centre）

Contact: Institute of Developing Economies, APL Organizers Kiyoyasu Tanaka　E-mail：kiyoyasu_tanaka Yuya Kudo　E-mail:yuya_kudo (do not copy and paste address, formatted differently to prevent spam)